Technological fluency through circuit bending
Erik L. Brunvand · 2015
The general education curriculum at the University of Utah requires that undergraduate students take courses in three of four “Intellectual Exploration” areas that are not in the student's major: Humanities, Fine Arts, Social & Behavioral Science, and Applied Science. Conspicuously missing from an engineering perspective are engineering and technology courses. In this paper I describe a new general education course specifically designed to introduce technology and engineering to undergraduates from a wide variety of backgrounds. I do this through a noise-making sound-art project-based curriculum based on hardware hacking and circuit bending.